Steel strut wheel



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STEEL STRUT WHEEL Filed June 25, 1930 MZ/z'azzz Z fire/212622.

NNNNNN OR Patented Aug. 18, 1931 1 p a; V

UNITED P TENTFFICE WILLIAM 'I. BEE-LINEN, OF BRIDGEPORT, PENNSYLVANIA STEEL STRUT-WHEEL Application filed June 25, 1930. Serial No. 463,781.

This invention relates to certain new and assemblage. A disk,such as indicated at 12, useful improvements in wheel construction carried by'and outwardly projecting circum-- adapted for employment upon motor vehicles ferentially from the enlarged end of the and the like. flared portion 11, carriesa rim 13 which may ()ne of the principal objects of the invenbe of the one piece dro-p center type. 'The 55 tion consists of a hub structure and disk to disk is provided with a series of'ope-nings 14 be coupled with the vehicle brake drums in through which stud bolt-s, not shown, carried the ordinary manner. 7 upon the vehicle brake drums and the like Another ob ect of the mvention contemmay pro ect to accommodate cap nuts or plates the provision and arrangement of strut other fittings. to

elements bracing the rim with relation to the The frusto-conical shaped member 15 telehub. "scopically associated with the outermost pro- More specifically stated the strut elements jeeting portion of the hub and abutting the are adj ustably and removably secured by intersecting walls of the latter with the flared 5 means of which the various parts may be portion 11 is provided: with a multiplicity of ca readily removed and replaced. radially disposed openings or pockets 16 ar- VVith the above and other objects in view, ranged at regular intervals and opening to the invention further consists of the follow the outer periphery thereof. ing novel features and details of construc- A locking element 17 of sleeve like formation, to be hereinafter more fully described, tion, telescopically associated and thre-adedly' illustrated in the accompanying drawings secured to the hub 10, is provided with a andpointed out in the appended claim. 'frustotonicalshaped portion 18 wedged or In the drawings otherwise friotionally disposed between the Figure 1 is a front elevation of the present i mediat fa es of the hub and frusto- 2 form of wheel construction. conical shaped member 15 in the manner best 7 Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view h wn i Figure 2. 3

taken thereihrough. Strutsor spoke members '19, receivable at Figure 3 is a top plan v ew of a Strut retheir innermost ends within the pockets or ceiving portion. openings 16 in the, frusto-conical shaped Figure is a Side elevation of the Wheel member 15, terminally abut the adjacent surhub cap partly broken away to illustrate the faces f th Sleeve 17 A flange tio 20, construction thereof. carried upon the sleeve member 17 engages Figure 5 is a side elevation of the adjusting th o t id f th spokes or t t 19 to 7 means for the Struts, p r ly n e i force or otherwise retain the spokes within Figure 6 is an end elevation of the hub the pockets or openings 16 and from which with a locking elemen ppli positions the latter may not become acciden- Figure 7 is an elevation. of one Of the tally displaced. Anut or other locking elestruts. ment, such as indicated at 21, is employed Referring to the drawings in detail whereupon the outermost projecting portion of the 40 in like characters of reference denote corh b 10 t b t th outermost t it f th responding P the reference Q 1O sleeve 17 whereby the latter will be lockmgly indicates generally aform of hub having an r t i d i iti f u e, A wr ch enenlarged outwardly and rearwardly flared gaging ti or facg 22 i f d 11pm} th portion 11 to accommodate the usual sphne Sleeve 17 h b th l tt may b m- 45 or key connect-ions, not shown, between the vidually' turned to tighten the spokes or vehicle brake drums and axles of the rear strut The other nds of th struts 0r wheels. It is obviously apparent that bearing spokes are projected for appreciable d sstruts for the front or steering wheels of tances within openings formed in the rim vehicles may be readily built up in the hub 13 and restricted as to such movement 50 structure without requiring alteration of the through the provision and arrangement of mo circumferentially disposed enlarged shoul-,

der portions 28. From the illustration of my invention in Figure 2 of the drawings, it is understood that the spokes or struts 19 follow the angularity assumed by the assemblage in order that the disk 12 will cooperate therewith in the maintenance of the rim in proper working position. A hub cap or other covering 24 is threadedly associated with the V sleeve 17 through the instrumenta-lity of a boss 25 especially provided for the purpose.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings, the outer face of the disk 12, between the association of the outwardly flared portion 11 and the rim 13 is provided with a multiplicity of intersecting embossed portions 26 vso arranged as to simulate the effect of additional spokes of the wire wheel type.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor 7 details of construction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is:

A vehicle wheel structure comprising a hub supporting a disk, a rim mounted upon the disk, a frusto-conical shaped member-telescopically associated with the hub having pockets opening to the periphery of its outermost end, a sleeve member adjustably connected with the hub having a portion disposed for telescopic association to lockingly maintain the frusto-conical shaped member in position for use, struts projected within said-openings for abutting engagement with the mentioned portion of the sleeve member at their innermost ends .and engageable at their other ends with the rim, and :a flange mounted upon the sleeve disposed at right angles to the pockets to overlie the outer sides of said struts for retainingsame within said pockets.

In testimony wherof I aflix my signature.

\VILLIAM T. BRENNEN. 

